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Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles Book In Chronological Order

Designed as a navigational guide, this timeline maps the chronological and spatial progression of Anne Rice’s universe.

This timeline not only connects the individual volumes of The Vampire Chronicles but also weaves in intersecting moments from The Lives of the Mayfair Witches, offering a unified view of the shared eras and settings within the saga.

This comprehensive chronology aligns major events, character milestones, and transformative points across the series; featuring key dates of vampiric creations, mortal and immortal deaths, historical intersections, and the shifting alliances that shaped the vampire world.

 

⚠️ Spoiler Alert: The content below contains plot details. Please refer to the Spoiler-Free Timeline For a spoiler-free experience.

 

0001
10,000 B.C.E.
Atalantaya
100

The Realms of Atlantis

VC 12 ⋆ ch 19

Kapetria’s Tale

Kapetria is born

10,000 BCE
I CAME TO CONSCIOUSNESS about twelve thousand years ago. I could not see or move. I was listening to music, music that involved singing and the myriad sounds of complex musical instruments.
VC 12 ⋆ ch 19
4000 BCE
Kemet. Ancient Egypt
120

The Queen of the Damned

VC 03 ⋆ part III ⋆ ch 4, ch 6, ch 8

THE STORY OF THE TWINS

MAHARET & MEKARE: 16yo

4000 BCE
Now, about the time that my sister and I reached our sixteenth year, a great change occurred in the Nile Valley. Or so we were told.
VC 03 ⋆ part III ⋆ ch 4
4000 BCE
Kemet. Ancient Egypt
130

Prince Lestat

VC 11 ⋆ ch 0

Blood Genesis

AKASHA Becomes a Vampire

4000 BCE
ocean to lands yet undiscovered and unnamed, vanished from history. This was six thousand years ago. The great Queen Akasha and her husband,
VC11: CH0

ENKIL Becomes a Vampire

4000 BCE
 
VC 00 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0

KHAYMAN Becomes a Vampire

4000 BCE
 
VC 00 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0

MEKARE Becomes a Vampire

4000 BCE
 
VC 00 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0

MAHARET Becomes a Vampire

4000 BCE
 
VC 00 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0
300 B.C.E.
Constantinople
140

Blood and Gold

VC 08 ⋆ ch 9

EUDOXIA Becomes a Vampire

300 BCE
I was from a fine Greek family, one of the first wave of settlers to come from Athens to Alexandria to make it the great city that Alexander wanted when he founded it three hundred years before the birth of the Christ.
VC 08 ⋆ ch 9
0010
10 A.D.
Massilia, Gual
150

The Vampire Lestat

VC 02 ⋆ part VII ⋆ ch 5 – ch 12

MARIUS’S STORY

part VII ⋆ ch 5

Spring 10
It happened in my fortieth year, on a warm spring night in the Roman Gallic city of Massilia, when in a dirty waterfront tavern I sat scribbling away on my history of the world.
VC 02 ⋆ part VII ⋆ ch 5

part VII ⋆ ch 6

Summer 10
My hair grew longer and fuller. And the hot summer melted into the cooler days of fall, and we were nearing the great annual feast of Samhain.
VC 02 ⋆ part VII ⋆ ch 6

MARIUS Becomes a Vampire

Nov 1, 10
Rise, Marius, he said. You thirst and I will give you to drink.
VC 02 ⋆ part VII ⋆ ch 7
But on Samhain (the first of November in our present Christian calendar —the day that has become the Feast of All Saints
VC 02 ⋆ part VII ⋆ ch 6

THE ELDER is Killed

part VII ⋆ ch 11
She walked back and forth over his remains with the same slow and effortless gait, and crushed the last of him utterly.
VC 02 ⋆ part VII ⋆ ch 11
0020
20 A.D.
Rome
151

Pandora

NV 01 ⋆ ch 1 – ch 11

PANDORA is born

15 B.C.E
I WAS born in Rome, during the reign of Augustus Caesar, in the year that you now reckon to have been 15 B.C., or fifteen years “before Christ.”
NV 01 ⋆ ch 2

Pandora: 10yo | Marius: 25yo

5 B.C.E.
I was ten years old

 

Now, on this day, this was Marius when he was alive, about fifteen years before he was to be made a vampire. I can calculate that he was only twenty-five. But I’m not certain.
NV 01 ⋆ ch 2

PANDORA becomes a vampire

ch 9
He covered me and kissed my cheek. “Drink from me,” he said, “drink until the pain goes away.
NV 01 ⋆ ch 9

Battle of Antioch

June 218 A.D.
The Army deserted the Imperial Macrinus, and he and his son were hunted down and murdered.
NV 01 ⋆ ch 11

ch 11

500 A.D.
Once in the Sixth Century—that is, five hundred years after the birth of Christ and three hundred years since I had left Marius—I went wandering in barbarian Italy.
NV 01 ⋆ ch 11
0305
305 A.D.
Constantinople
200

Blood and Gold

VC 08 ⋆ ch 5 – ch 8

ch 6

305 A.D.
In the year of 305, there were two of these sovereigns known as Augusti, and two known as Caesars,
VC 08 ⋆ ch 6

ch 6

January 326
relief and happiness when in January of 326, the Emperor headed for our city once again.
VC 08 ⋆ ch 6

Visigoth King Alaric I captured Ostia

409 A.D.
The Visigoth Ruler Alaric had taken the nearby port of Ostia, and was threatening Rome itself.
VC 08 ⋆ ch 7

99 Years since VC 08 ⋆ ch 7

508 A.D.
 Almost a hundred years had passed.
VC 08 ⋆ ch 8
0508
508 A.D.
Constantinople
210

Blood and Gold

VC 08 ⋆ ch 10 – ch 11

RASHID, EUDOXIA, & ASPHAR are Killed

508 A.D.
I burnt them both at once.
VC 08 ⋆ ch 10
1200
1200 A.D.
Constantinople
220

Blood and Gold

VC 08 ⋆ ch 12

Marius goes into Super Slumber

1200 A.D.
And then finally, perhaps in the year 1200—I am uncertain—I lay down in the vault for a long sleep.
VC 08 ⋆ ch 12

Marius awakes from Super Slumber

1482 A.D.
t was time for me to see this world which marked its time as the year after Christ 1482. Why I chose that year I am uncertain
VC 08 ⋆ ch 12
1450
1450 A.D.
Tuscany, Italy
225

Vittorio the Vampire

NV 02 ⋆ ch 1 – ch 16

ch 1

1450 A.D.
I have been in bed with the dead since 1450.
NV 02 ⋆ ch 1
1484
1484 A.D.
Rome
230

Blood and Gold

VC 08 ⋆ ch 13 – ch 17

Botticelli: 39yo

1484 A.D.
“I am Sandro,” he said simply, “I’m Botticelli” … I didn’t think he was forty years old.
VC 08 ⋆ ch 14
1490
1496 A.D.
Florence
231

Blood and Gold

VC 08 ⋆ ch 18 – ch 23

ARMAND: 15yo

1496
He was fifteen years old at the most when I took him out of the brothel that night
VC 08 ⋆ ch 18
1496 A.D.
Venice
235

The Vampire Armand

VC 06 ⋆ ch 2 – ch 7

ARMAND: 15yo

1496
 
VC 06 ⋆ ch 1

1 year since VC 06 ⋆ ch 3

Winter 1497
I think a whole year passed before I came home one evening, flushed from the winter air
VC 06 ⋆ ch 3

2 years since VC 06 ⋆ ch 3

1498
For two years, I’ve watched you grow, he said. You’ve reached your full height
VC 06 ⋆ ch 4
1498 A.D.
Venice
240

The Vampire Armand

VC 06 ⋆ ch 8 – ch 15

Armand Becomes a Vampire

Winter 1498
I crushed him under me. “Give it to me,” I whispered. “Give it to me.” The blood hovered on my lips and then flooded down my throat.
VC 06 ⋆ ch 8

9 Months since VC 06 ⋆ ch 8

Fall 1499
Nine months perhaps we had together after our trip to Kiev. Nine or maybe ten, I cannot mark the climax by any exterior event.
VC 06 ⋆ ch 13

Children of Satan assassinate Marius

Late 1499
Would that she had not been there on the fatal evening in 1499, just before the turn of the century
VC 06 ⋆ ch 13
1499 A.D.
Venice
250

Blood and Gold

VC 08 ⋆ ch 24 – ch 26

BIANCA Becomes a Vampire

1499 A.D.
“Give me the Blood, my lord,” she said suddenly, her voice low and quick.
VC 08 ⋆ ch 24
1534
1534 A.D.
Rome
260

Blood and Gold

VC 08 ⋆ ch 27 – ch 31

Henry VIII declared himself independent of Rome

1534 A.D.
And in England, our sovereign Henry VIII has declared himself independent of Rome, in spite of much resistance.
VC 08 ⋆ ch 27

Raymond Gallant: 80yo

1559 A.D.
Eighty years, Marius, he said. He smiled
VC 08 ⋆ ch 28

52 Years Passed

1648 A.D.
A year passed and these things did not happen. And another year and then fifty. And these things did not happen.
VC 08 ⋆ ch 31

ch 31

1700 A.D.
And then as the 1700s commenced, I prepared to make a daring move to an island where I would rule supreme
VC 08 ⋆ ch 31
1770
1778 A.D.
Auvergne, France
Paris, France
300

The Vampire Lestat

VC 02 ⋆ part I

Lelio Rising

Lestat is born

Nov 7, 1757
 
VC 00 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0

Lestat: 20yo

Nov 7, 1777
 
VC 00 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0

- WolfKiller

Jan. 1778
In the winter of my twenty-first year, I went out alone on horseback to kill a pack of wolves.
So early on a very cold morning in January, I armed myself to kill the wolves one by one
VC 02 ⋆ part I

part I ⋆ ch 5

Spring 1778
Spring was approaching, the mountains were dappled with green, the apple orchard starting back to life.
VC 02 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 5

part I ⋆ ch 7

Aug. 1778
It came in late August at last.
VC 02 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 7

Lelio on Stage

Sept. 1778
By September I had my name on the handbills
VC 02 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 7

part I ⋆ ch 7

Oct. 1778
But in the month of October when Paris was already freezing,
VC 02 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 7
1778 A.D.
Paris, France
310

The Vampire Lestat

VC 02 ⋆ part II

The Legacy of Magnus

part II ⋆ ch 2

Winter 1778
The cold winter air was moving just a little in this room.
VC 02 ⋆ part II ⋆ ch 2

LESTAT Becomes a Vampire

part II ⋆ ch 2
but he pressed my face to the wound, as he said: “Drink.
VC 02 ⋆ part II ⋆ ch 2

MAGNUS is Killed

part II ⋆ ch 3
I saw him descend. I saw the fire catch his garments.
VC 02 ⋆ part II ⋆ ch 3

LESTAT Buys the Théâtre

part II ⋆ ch 10
All right, buy the theater
VC 02 ⋆ part II ⋆ ch 10

part II ⋆ ch 10

March 1779
here it was nearly spring. And the nights were getting warmer
One night in march, I realized as Roget read my mother’s letter
VC 02 ⋆ part II ⋆ ch 10
1779 A.D.
Paris, France
320

The Vampire Lestat

VC 02 ⋆ part III

Viaticum For The Marquise

GABRIELLE Becomes a Vampire

Spring 1779
Mother, drink, I said frantically, and pushed it harder, but some change had already commenced.
VC 02 ⋆ part III ⋆ ch 1
1779 A.D.
Paris, France
330

The Vampire Lestat

VC 02 ⋆ part IV

The Children Of Darkness

6 months since part II ⋆ ch 2

Spring 1779
I asked. For half a year I’ve been what I am. God and Satan have not troubled me!
VC 02 ⋆ part IV ⋆ ch 1

part IV ⋆ ch 4

Winter 1780
heads bowed against the first gust of winter rain, and there had been the eternity of growing up and growing old before us
VC 02 ⋆ part IV ⋆ ch 4

NICOLAS Becomes a Vampire

1780
Nicolas de Lenfent—Close friend of Lestat, made into a vampire by Lestat in 1780 and long dead.
VC 11 ⋆ part 0
1780
1780 A.D.
Paris, France
340

The Vampire Lestat

VC 02 ⋆ part V

The Vampire Armand

part V ⋆ ch 1

Spring 1780
Spring rain. Rain of light that saturated every new leaf of the trees in the street,
VC 02 ⋆ part V ⋆ ch 1

Lestat Searches for Marius

May 1780
MARIUS, THE ANCIENT ONE: LESTAT IS SEARCHING FOR YOU. IT IS THE MONTH OF MAY , IN THE YEAR 1780 AND I GO SOUTH FROM PARIS
VC 02 ⋆ part V ⋆ ch 5
1786 A.D.
Italy
Cairo, Egypt
345

The Vampire Lestat

VC 02 ⋆ part VI

On The Devil’s Road From Paris To Cairo

LESTAT: 30yo

1786
And already at the age of thirty mortal years, I have some understanding as to why so many of our kind have wasted it, given it up.
VC 02 ⋆ part VI ⋆ ch 2
1789 A.D.
Searching
360

The Vampire Lestat

VC 02 ⋆ part VII ⋆ ch 1 – ch 4

Marius & Lestat meet

1789
I’m immortal. I’ve been virtually ageless since 1789.
VC 05 ⋆ Prologue
1789 A.D.
Marius' Island in Aegean Sea
370

The Vampire Lestat

VC 02 ⋆ part VII ⋆ ch 13 – ch 17

Enkil & Lestat meet

1789
Kill him, Enkil, and I will take her away from you forever, and she will help me to do it! I swear!
VC 02 ⋆ part VII ⋆ ch 14
Enkil, if you harm Lestat, if you kill him, I shall take her away from you forever and she will help me to do it.
VC 08 ⋆ ch 32

-

1789

1929-140 = 1789

the painful events that led to my decision to go down into the earth in 1929. That was a hundred and forty years after I left Marius’s island
VC 02 ⋆ part VII ⋆ ch 16
1789 A.D.
Marius' Island in Aegean Sea
380

Blood and Gold

VC 08 ⋆ ch 32 – ch 33

Enkil & Lestat meet

1789
Kill him, Enkil, and I will take her away from you forever, and she will help me to do it! I swear!
VC 02 ⋆ part VII ⋆ ch 14
Enkil, if you harm Lestat, if you kill him, I shall take her away from you forever and she will help me to do it.
VC 08 ⋆ ch 32
1790
1791 A.D.
New Orleans, U.S.
400

Interview with the Vampire

VC 01 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 1

LOUIS Becomes a Vampire

1791
No, answered the vampire. I was a twenty-five-year-old man when I became a vampire, and the year was seventeen ninety-one.
VC 01 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 1
1794 A.D.
New Orleans, U.S.
410

Interview with the Vampire

VC 01 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 2 – ch 3

CLAUDIA Becomes a Vampire

Sep 21, 1794
It was 1794 when I made this succulent little vampire out of a dying orphan, and sixty years passed before she rose up against me.
VC 04 ⋆ prologue
The first entry was September 21, 1836: This is my birthday present from Louis.
VC 03 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 6
1859
1859 A.D.
New Orleans, U.S.
420

Interview with the Vampire

VC 01 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 4

CLAUDIA's Conspiracy

1859

1794+65 = 1859

“The sleep of sixty-five years has ended! I heard her say it, disbelieving, not wanting to believe she knew and meant precisely what she’d said.
VC 01 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 4
but I knew that she could hear it as well as I. September 21, 1859. It has been so many decades since Louis presented me with this little book
VC 07 ⋆ ch 17

ANTOINE Becomes a Vampire

1860
Antoine—A French musician, exiled to Louisiana and brought into the Blood by Lestat around 1860.
VC 11 ⋆ part 0

Lestat's Takes Possession of Rue Royale

1862
And then there were arrangements for Lestat. I had planned to leave him the rents from several shops and town houses and a small construction company operating in the Faubourg Marigny.
VC 01 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 6
In fact, in 1862 he had taken possession of a Royal Street town house from his business partner, Louis de Pointe du Lac.
VC 03 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 4

Lestat's Assassination

Spring 1862
‘Louis…put me in my coffin.’
VC 01 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 4
And on a warm sultry night in the spring of the year 1860, she rose up to settle the score
VC 02 ⋆ Epilogue 1

New Orleans Fire of 1862

Spring 1862
There was noise rising in the street, shouts, the sound of a bell. The room itself had fast become an inferno
VC 01 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 4
when they had come to cover up the damage, they had stuffed the holes with old newspapers dated 1862.
VC 03 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 6
1862
Spring 1863 A.D.
Atlantic Ocean
Europe
430

Interview with the Vampire

VC 01 ⋆ part II

-

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VC 00 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0
1870
1870 A.D.
Paris, France
440

Interview with the Vampire

VC 01 ⋆ part III

Louis & Armand meet

1870
Let me return now to the Paris of the 1870-some decades after-to the moment when the young New World vampire, Louis, came through my door,
VC 06 ⋆ part II ⋆ chapter 16

Madeleine Becomes a Vampire

part III ⋆ ch 2
VC 00 ⋆ part III ⋆ ch 2

Madeleine and Claudia are Killed

part III ⋆ ch 3
VC 00 ⋆ part III ⋆ ch 3

The Théâtre des Vampires is burnt to the ground.

-----|-----
We were leaving Paris. I had done it. The Théâtre des Vampires was burning to the ground.
VC 01 ⋆ part III

Celeste, Estelle, and SANTIAGO are Killed

-----|-----
 
VC 00 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0
1870 A.D.
Paris, France
450

The Vampire Armand

VC 06 ⋆ ch 16

ch 16

1800
For three hundred years, I was faithful to the Old Ways of Santino ... without apology for the credos he had stuffed down my throat in the year 1500 before I was sent north to Paris
VC 06 ⋆ ch 16

Louis & Armand meet​

1870
Let me return now to the Paris of the 1870-some decades after-to the moment when the young New World vampire, Louis, came through my door,
VC 06 ⋆ part II ⋆ chapter 16

ch 16

1900
Why in this final decade of the twentieth century do we seek each other out if only for occasional words and exchanges of concern?
VC 06 ⋆ chapter 16
1928
1928 A.D.
to 1984 A.D.
460

The Vampire Lestat

VC 02 ⋆ epilogue 1

Interview With The Vampire

Lestat goes into Super Slumber​

1929
 I looked at the date on the magazine and I knew it was 1929, and I thought, oh, that’s not possible, is it?
VC 02 ⋆ epilogue 1

Lestat wakes from Super Slumber

1984
In the year of his Resurrection 1984
VC 02 ⋆ epilogue 1
1970
1973 A.D.
San Fransisco, U.S.
490

Interview with the Vampire

VC 01 ⋆ part IV

LOUIS & LESTAT reunite

Spring 1973
It was late spring of this year. And as soon as I emerged from the railway station, I knew that I had indeed come home
VC 01 ⋆ part IV ⋆ ch 1

DANIEL interviews LOUIS

1973

1985-12

their beginning in New Orleans, twelve years ago when Daniel had entered a crumbling old house in the Garden District
VC 03 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 4
1976 A.D.
Guatemala City
495

Merrick

VC 07 ⋆ ch 11 – ch 15

Merrick: 14

Summer 1977
I WENT ON with my tale, flashing back once more some twenty years, to the summer of Merrick’s fourteenth year.
VC 07 ⋆ ch 11

ch 11

Feb. 1978
By February of the following year,
VC 07 ⋆ ch 11

Merrick: 18

1981
At age eighteen, Merrick informed me by official letter
VC 07 ⋆ ch 11

Merrick: 21

1984
On her twenty-first birthday, my personal gift to Merrick was a triple string of natural and perfectly matched white pearls.
VC 07 ⋆ ch 11

Merrick: 24 | Talbot: 70

1987
What was I doing to this young woman? I had just passed my seventieth birthday. And she had not yet reached her twenty-fifth.
VC 07 ⋆ ch 15
1985
1985 A.D.
San Fransisco, U.S.
499

The Vampire Lestat

VC 02 ⋆ epilogue 2

Concert Pregame

1985
Dionysus in San Francisco 1985
VC 02 ⋆ epilogue 1
October 21, 1985
500

The Queen of the Damned

VC 03 ⋆ part 0

PROEM

ENKIL is Killed

Oct 21, 1985
I have to begin some ten nights before the fatal concert and I have to let you slip into the minds and hearts of other beings who were responding to my music and my book
VC 03 ⋆ part 0
October 24, 1985
Around The World
510

The Queen of the Damned

VC 03 ⋆ part I

THE ROAD TO THE VAMPIRE LESTAT

VC 03 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 2

Oct 29, 1985
Out in California the Vampire Lestat was going on stage two nights from now.
VC 03 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 2

DANIEL Becomes a Vampire

Oct 30, 1985
Armand, I need you. Armand, that concert is tomorrow night. And something terrible is going to happen, something terrible. . . .
They would camp in the parking lot until tomorrow night.
VC 03 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 4
October 31, 1985
San Fransisco, U.S.
520

The Queen of the Damned

VC 03 ⋆ part II

ALL HALLOWS EVE

LESTAT'S Concert

Oct 31, 1985
appearing “live” on stage in a debut concert in this very city. Yes, on Halloween, you guessed it.
VC 03 ⋆ part 0

JESSE Becomes a Vampire

-----|-----
 
VC 00 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0

DAVIS, RUSS, TIM, and BABY JENKS are Killed

-----|-----
 
VC 00 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0
October 31, 1985
530

The Queen of the Damned

VC 03 ⋆ part III ⋆ ch 1

LESTAT: IN THE ARMS OF THE GODDESS

-

Oct 31, 1985
 
VC 03 ⋆ part III ⋆ ch 1
November 1, 1985
Sonoma compound
540

The Queen of the Damned

VC 03 ⋆ part III ⋆ ch 2

MARIUS: COMING TOGETHER

-

Nov 1, 1985
A monster with green eyes and delicate bones. Born yesterday, yes, exactly as he had figured it;
VC 03 ⋆ part III ⋆ ch 2
November 1, 1985
Himalaya
550

The Queen of the Damned

VC 03 ⋆ part III ⋆ ch 3

LESTAT: THE QUEEN OF HEAVEN

AZIM is Killed

part III ⋆ ch 3
“Die, damnable one!”
VC 03 ⋆ part III ⋆ ch 3
November 1, 1985
Greek Island
560

The Queen of the Damned

VC 03 ⋆ part III ⋆ ch 5

LESTAT: THIS IS MY BODY; THIS IS MY BLOOD

-

Nov 1, 1985
 
VC 03 ⋆ part III ⋆ ch 5
November 2, 1985
Haiti, The Caribbean
570

The Queen of the Damned

VC 03 ⋆ part III ⋆ ch 7

LESTAT: THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN

-

Nov 2, 1985
 
VC 03 ⋆ part III ⋆ ch 7
November 2, 1985
Sonoma compound
580

The Queen of the Damned

VC 03 ⋆ part IV

THE QUEEN OF THE DAMNED

AKASHA is Killed

-----|-----
 
VC 00 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0
January 1986
Miami, U.S.
New Orleans, U.S.
590

The Queen of the Damned

VC 03 ⋆ part V

…WORLD WITHOUT END, AMEN

part V

January 1986
The colors were somehow the same. And even in this blasted cold of January, it had the old tropical feel to it
VC 03 ⋆ part V
1990
Winter 1990
Miami, U.S.
New Orleans, U.S.
600

The Tale of the Body Thief

VC 04 ⋆ ch 1 – ch 6

ch 0

1990
It begins in Miami, in the year 1990, and I really want to start right there.
VC 04 ⋆ part 0

ch 5

1991
Whatever, I stayed a year in Rio. And believe you me, that was the most remarkable year of my life
VC 04 ⋆ ch 5

TALBOT: 74yo

1991
That’s my point. I’m seventy four, and I don’t know.
VC 04 ⋆ ch 5
1991
Tuesday
Washington D.C.
601

The Tale of the Body Thief

VC 04 ⋆ ch 7 – ch 9

ch 7

Tuesday
I arrived quite early in the evening for I had gone backwards in time against the turning of the world.
It was not until tomorrow night that Mr. Raglan James meant to meet me
VC 04 ⋆ ch 7
Wednesday
Washington D.C.
602

The Tale of the Body Thief

VC 04 ⋆ ch 10 – ch 11

-Body Swap

Wednesday
Wednesday at last. Not a half hour had passed since the sun had set. I had startled him when I appeared on the back steps.
VC 04 ⋆ ch 10
Thursday
Washington D.C.
603

The Tale of the Body Thief

VC 04 ⋆ ch 12

ch 12

Thursday
WITHIN moments of leaving the town house, of stepping out into the glorious daylight
VC 04 ⋆ ch 12

ch 12

THU ⋆ 2:30pm
Half past two. The big cheap watch on my wrist said the same thing. Why, I had only about thirteen hours left.
VC 04 ⋆ ch 12

ch 12

FRI ⋆ 2:00am
I saw by my watch that it was two o’clock. Good Lord, the hour of transformation was almost at hand.
VC 04 ⋆ ch 12

ch 12

FRI ⋆ 11:47am
When I opened my eyes again, it was to the light of day.

 

Then slowly I lifted my wrist so that I might read the watch. Eleven forty-seven in the a.m.
VC 04 ⋆ ch 12
Friday
Washington D.C.
604

The Tale of the Body Thief

VC 04 ⋆ ch 13 – ch 14

ch 13

FRI ⋆ 8:00pm
Eight o’clock. I was lying on the gurney, with the needle in my arm, and the plastic sack of fluid catching the light so beautifully, and I could see the clock perfectly.
VC 04 ⋆ ch 13
Saturday
Washington D.C.
605

The Tale of the Body Thief

VC 04 ⋆ ch 15 – ch 16

ch 15

Saturday
EARLY morning, just before the sun comes. The time when in the past I was often in meditation, tired, and half in love with the changing sky.
VC 04 ⋆ ch 15

ch 16

SAT ⋆ 12 pm
NOON. I was dressed in the clean new clothes which I had bought on that last fateful day
VC 04 ⋆ ch 16
Sunday
Washington D.C.
606

The Tale of the Body Thief

VC 04 ⋆ ch 17 – ch 19

ch 17

SUN ⋆ 12 am
It was near midnight when we finally reached the narrow tree-lined streets of uptown
VC 04 ⋆ ch 17

ch 18

SUN ⋆ 2 am
IT WAS two by the watch on my wrist.
VC 04 ⋆ ch 18

ch 19

Sunday
Friday morning, sailed before midnight, then on to Curacao, where she arrived yesterday morning at five a.m.
VC 04 ⋆ ch 19
Monday
607

The Tale of the Body Thief

VC 04 ⋆ ch 20 – ch 21

ch 20

MON - 12 am
By midnight-some two hours later-I had learned to rise at will.
VC 04 ⋆ ch 20

-Queen Elizabeth 2

Monday
 
VC 04 ⋆ ch 21
1991
620

The Tale of the Body Thief

VC 04 ⋆ ch 23 – ch 32

ch 22

TUE - 3:25am
We were still talking quietly at twenty-five minutes past three when we happened to see the handsome Mr. Jason Hamilton pass by again.
VC 04 ⋆ ch 22

ch 26

Wednesday
I was staring into the very face I had seen in the mirror only two days ago!
VC 04 ⋆ ch 26

ch 29

Friday
IT WAS two nights later that I returned to New Orleans.
VC 04 ⋆ ch 29

ch 31

Wednesday
Five nights had passed since my return. Work was progressing wonderfully well on the flat in the Rue Royale, and of course he had not failed to notice it.
VC 04 ⋆ ch 31

DAVID Becomes a Vampire

Winter 1992
He came into my study one winter night and caught me quite unawares.
VC 07 ⋆ part 0
1993
Winter 1993
New Orleans, U.S.
630

Memnoch the Devil

VC 05 ⋆ ch 1 – ch 9

1 Year since: VC 04 ⋆ ch 32

Winter 1993
We had been in some nameless jungle place, the three of us, when we agreed to part, and that had been a year ago.
When you think you’re losing your mind on account of winter, you can go into these hotels
VC 05 ⋆ ch 1
Winter 1993
Heaven & Hell
635

Memnoch the Devil

VC 05 ⋆ ch 10 – ch 21

-

-
VC 05 ⋆ ch 10
Winter 1993
New York, U.S.
New Orleans, U.S.
640

Memnoch the Devil

VC 05 ⋆ ch 22 – ch 26

3 days since: VC 05 ⋆ ch 9

Winter 1993
I’d been gone the space of three days. The news was filled with tales of Roger’s death
VC 05 ⋆ ch 22

LESTAT goes into Super Slumber

Winter 1993
“I’m going to keep you here,” she said. “As a prisoner. For a while. Until you’re quieter.”
VC 05 ⋆ ch 25

VC 05 FINALIZED

Feb 28, 1994
9:43 February 28, 1994
VC 05 ⋆ ch 26
1994
1994 A.D.
New York, U.S.
650

The Vampire Armand

VC 06 ⋆ ch 17 – ch 24

2 Months since VC 05 ⋆ ch 26

Winter 1994
For two months I remained in New York with Sybelle and Benji, living as I’ve never lived before
VC 06 ⋆ ch 23

ch 24

Spring 1994
making up his mind one spring night in New York City that it was time to journey south and look in on his old friend.
VC 06 ⋆ ch 24
February 1994
660

The Vampire Armand

VC 06 ⋆ ch 1

ARMAND Returns to Tell His Story

Spring 1994
The spring outside, the warmth, the hovering mist that would be rain.
VC 06 ⋆ ch 1
1997
1997 A.D.
New York, U.S.
670

The Vampire Armand

VC 06 ⋆ ch 25

SYBELLE & BENJI Become Vampires

1997
Benjamin (Benji) Mahmoud—A twelve-year-old Palestinian Bedouin boy, brought into the Blood by Marius in 1997.

 

Sybelle—A young American pianist, about twenty, brought into the Blood by Marius in 1997.
VC 11 ⋆ Appendix 1

LESTAT Awakes from Super Slumber

1997
 
VC 00 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0

VC 06 FINALIZED

Jan 6, 1998
8:12 a.m. January 6, 1998 Little Christmas
VC 06 ⋆ ch 25
1997 A.D.
New Orleans, U.S.
680

Merrick

VC 07 ⋆ ch 1 – ch 6

ch 2

Spring 1997
though tonight the late spring evening was only moist, not wet with a coming storm.
VC 07 ⋆ ch 2
1997 A.D.
Oak Haven
685

Merrick

VC 07 ⋆ ch 7 – ch 10

5 Years since VC 04 ⋆ ch 32

1997
I have been a vampire now for five years, I can vividly remember the sunshine coming through the rain to strike the narrow broken pavements
VC 07 ⋆ ch 7

TALBOT & Merrick meet.

ch 7
VC 07 ⋆ ch 7

Great Nananne's Funeral

ch 7
VC 07 ⋆ ch 7
1998
1998 A.D.
Blackwood Manor, Louisiana
690

Blackwood Farm

VC 09 ⋆ ch 7 – ch 34

- ch 7

1924 A.D.
into the swamp of Mad Manfred himself in the year 1924, as Aunt Queen has already described to us
VC 09 ⋆ ch 7

QUINN is born. Patsy: 16yo

March 8, 1980
had despaired of having a child, begat Patsy. At age sixteen, Patsy gave birth to me
VC 09 ⋆ ch 7

QUINN: 3yo

March 8, 1983
My first distinct memory is a third birthday party in the kitchen,
VC 09 ⋆ ch 8

QUINN: 7yo - Aunt Queen: 70yo

1987
I must have been about seven years old when I saw the first ghosts in the cemetery, and I can see this very vividly now as I speak

 

I calculate she must have been near seventy around that time, but she looked younger than Pops
VC 09 ⋆ ch 8

QUINN: 14yo

1994
I saw Goblin—now fourteen, you understand, because I was fourteen—standing by the bedroom door and looking proudly at me.
VC 09 ⋆ ch 8

QUINN: 17yo

March 8, 1997
Just after I passed my seventeenth birthday, my days with Lynelle came to a close.
VC 09 ⋆ ch 8

+ 6mo +several mo

ch 9
NOT SIX MONTHS had passed before Little Ida died in my bed one night

 

Gradually, over a period of several months, a semi-calm came over me entirely due to Big Ramona,
VC 09 ⋆ ch 9

Mardi Gras

Feb. 27, 1998
Then Mardi Gras came, which meant that Sweetheart had to go to her sister Ruthie’s house,
VC 09 ⋆ ch 8
Mardi Gras Day was February twenty-seventh.
VC 09 ⋆ ch 8

QUINN: 18yo

March 8, 1998
My eighteenth birthday came and went with nothing much to mark it, except that I got a new pickup truck
VC 09 ⋆ ch 8

Sweetheart dies.

Mar. 14, 1998
And here it is March fourteenth. That’s how long she really suffered, and that’s not all that bad.’
VC 09 ⋆ ch 9

- ch 9

Spring 1998
As I watched the Shed Men lay in the late spring flowers
VC 09 ⋆ ch 9

- ch 10

Summer 1998
Now that summer was coming and the days were longer
VC 09 ⋆ ch 10

- ch 12

Mid. Summer
above a hot road in front of one’s car in the middle of summer.
VC 09 ⋆ ch 12

QUINN: 18.5yo - Jasmine: 35yo

ch 19
‘Just about nineteen,’ I said. ‘Does eighteen and a half mean anything?’
VC 09 ⋆ ch 19

Aunt Queen: 78

ch 22
Of course, she was seventy-eight (or so she said) and she wasn’t going to marry anyone,
VC 00 ⋆ part 9 ⋆ ch 22

QUINN: 18 / MONA: 15

1998
‘Fifteen!’ I was amazed. ‘Well, I’m eighteen, ’ I said. ‘We’re both precocious. Our children will be geniuses.’
VC 09 ⋆ ch 25

- ch 28

Winter 1998
don’t you think, for the bitter cold Louisiana nights in winter of which outsiders know so little.
VC 09 ⋆ ch 28

- ch 31

Spring
To my utter amazement Stirling Oliver of the Talamasca had come to join us and in keeping with the mild late spring weather he wore a white three-piece suit
VC 09 ⋆ ch 31
1999
Spring 1999
695

Merrick

VC 07 ⋆ ch 16 – ch 25

séance

ch 19
I am Merrick. I cannot be denied!
VC 07 ⋆ ch 19

ch 21

Spring
Even the rats were gone from it. Its thick brick walls were chilly, though it was spring. My footfalls echoed as always.
VC 07 ⋆ ch 21

MERRICK Becomes a Vampire

ch 22
Merrick stood before me in the very red silk of last night’s brief meeting, and all her physiognomy was changed by the Dark Gift.
VC 07 ⋆ ch 22

VC 07 FINALIZED

July 25, 1999
4:30 p.m. Sunday. July 25, 1999
VC 07 ⋆ ch 25
2000
2000
700

Blood and Gold

VC 08 ⋆ ch 1 – ch 4

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VC 08 ⋆ ch 1
March 2000
Maharet's Sanctuary, Amazon Jungle
710

Blood and Gold

VC 08 ⋆ ch 34 – ch 36

SANTINO is Killed

-----|-----
 
VC 0 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0

VC Finalized

Mar 19, 2000
9:20 p.m. March 19, 2000
VC 08 ⋆ ch 34
2001
2001 A.D.
Blackwood Manor, Louisiana
720

Blackwood Farm

VC 09 ⋆ ch 35 – ch 42

European Odyssey

ch 35
might have been had I known that we would be gone on our European odyssey for a full three years?
VC 09 ⋆ ch 35

Tommy: 13yo

ch 35
and young Tommy, now age thirteen by a matter of two whole days, stood up to read a poem he had written for the occasion,
VC 09 ⋆ ch 35

+3.5 yr

ch 35
“And so the three-and-a-half-year intermezzo was ended.
VC 00 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0

Tommy: 13

ch 35
and young Tommy, now age thirteen by a matter of two whole days, stood up to read a poem he had written for the occasion,
VC 09 ⋆ ch 35

QUINN becomes a vampire.

ch 40
Poor Quinn. He’s dead. And I was.
VC 09 ⋆ ch 40

Tommy: 13

ch 42
And then there was Tommy, my reserved thirteen-year-old uncle, whom I so adored. I had to hug Tommy.
VC 09 ⋆ ch 42
2002
Summer 2002
730

Blackwood Farm

VC 09 ⋆ ch 1 – ch 6

LESTAT & QUINN meet.

ch 2
 
VC 09 ⋆ ch 2
April 2002
New Orleans, U.S.
750

Blackwood Farm

VC 09 ⋆ ch 43 – ch 54

Easter

April 2002
I also instigated a midnight dinner on Holy Saturday-Easter Sunday morning, just because I couldn’t attend the Easter buffet,
VC 09 ⋆ ch 43

Aunt Queen's Funeral

Spring 2002
There lay Aunt Queen in satin splendor
VC 09 ⋆ ch 45

ch 50

Summer 2002
SUMMER NIGHT. The sun didn’t set until six-thirty. Quiet lay over Blackwood Farm.
VC 09 ⋆ ch 50

MERRICK is Killed

ch 50
Merrick had gone into the fire.
VC 09 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 50

MONA Becomes a Vampire

ch 52
Yes. I want it, she said.
VC 09 ⋆ ch 52
Summer 2002
Blackwood Manor, Louisiana
760

Blood Canticle

VC 10 ⋆ ch 1 – ch 31

John Paul II is 82

2002
John Paul II, eighty-two years of age, is suffering, the pain in his bones too much for true sleep,
VC 10 ⋆ ch 1

ch 2

Spring
and the sky the perfect color of lilacs, and the heat of the summer sweet and caressing
VC 10 ⋆ ch 2

Aunt Queen: Dead at 85

Spring 2002
his great Aunt Queen, age of eighty-five, by causing the beautiful lady to fall. I had needed Merrick Mayfair to exorcise this evil spirit forever.
VC 10 ⋆ ch 2

VC 10 FINALIZED

Oct. 5, 2002
Anne Rice, October 5, 2002, New Orleans
VC 10 ⋆ ch 31
2011
2011 A.D.
Trinity Gate, New York
800

Prince Lestat

VC 11 ⋆ ch 1 – ch 32

ROSE Becomes a Vampire

-----|-----
 
VC 0 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0

The Great Fire of 2013

2013
 
VC 0 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0

ERIC is Killed

-----|-----
 
VC 0 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0

MAHARET is Killed

-----|-----
 
VC 0 ⋆ part 0 ⋆ ch 0

part II ⋆ ch 7

2013
It was the year 2013. This fact alone astonished him. Over twenty years had passed and his burnt flesh was healed.
VC 11 ⋆ part II ⋆ ch 7

Teskhamen & Lestat meet

Sept. 2013
Now, in the year 2013—as Gregory stood in Central Park in this warm September night, watching, listening, as inside the house called Trinity Gate,
VC 11 ⋆ part II ⋆ ch 9

VC 11 FINALIZED

Nov 26, 2013
Tuesday, Palm Desert, November 26, 2013
VC 11 ⋆ part IV ⋆ ch 32
2014
March 2014
Trinity Gate
850

The Realms of Atlantis

VC 12 ⋆ ch 1 – ch 18

Spies in the Savage Garden

6 Months since VC 11 ⋆ part II ⋆ ch 10

March 2014
Teskhamen was of course a blood drinker survivor of the millennia... his skin darker than it had appeared when I’d first laid eyes on him some six months before.
VC 12 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 2

KILLER is Killed​

Winter 2014
AS THE SUN set in New York on this mild winter evening
VC 12 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 3

MONA is Killed

part II ⋆ ch 10
I am certain it was Mona. I saw her red hair. I saw her die but it seemed she went in an instant
VC 12 ⋆ part I ⋆ ch 15
2014 A.D.
Château de Lioncourt,France
880

The Realms of Atlantis

VC 12 ⋆ ch 20 – ch 33

ROLAND is Killed

ch 22
The figure of Roland went up in flames. Flames sprang from his heart, his limbs.
VC 12 ⋆ ch 22

ch 33

Spring 2015
SPRING CAME TO our mountains with uncommon speed and warmth.
VC 12 ⋆ ch 33

ch 33

June 15, 2015
By mid-June, I was walking about Paris all the time and Louis invariably accompanied me.
VC 12 ⋆ ch 33

VC 12 FINALIZED

July 1, 2016
1:50 p.m. July 1, 2016, La Quinta, California
VC 12 ⋆ ch 33
2015
2015 A.D.
Château de Lioncourt, France
900

Blood Communion

VC 13 ⋆ ch 1 – ch 26

ARJUN is Killed

ch 5
So Arjun is dead?”
VC 02 ⋆ part VII ⋆ ch 6

1 Year since VC 12 ⋆ ch 18

Winter 2015
just after Kapetria had come to us, which was now a year ago, the Children of Atlantis had been investigating Rhosh
VC 13 ⋆ ch 14

Winter Solstice Ball

Dec 21, 2015
The night of the ball came.
VC 13 ⋆ ch 26

ALAIN Becomes a Vampire

Dec 21, 2015
 
VC 13 ⋆ ch 26

VC 13 FINALIZED

Sept. 26, 2017
September 26, 2017
VC 13 ⋆ ch 26

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